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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- , notorized Columns Spearhead U. S. Advance Across Brittany; Current Budget Tops 98 Billion i Released by Western Newspaper Union (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed fn these columns, they are those of Westera .Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) .--....., ,. ,...-..., ........... .,, .. . .-:,.-4,w......x......, ypejyv. 'J' ! $ ' ? ' t , - t -S T f .ft t f- -'I STRIKE : Piiy IW J7p Production of radar, heavy artillery, artil-lery, bombs and other ordnance was seriously hampered in Philadelphia when transportation lines running to the surrounding war plants were paralyzed by a strike of 6,000 bus. trolley and subway operators over the hiring of Negro drivers. Adding to the transportation tie-up, tie-up, which was only partially relieved by OPA's increase in gas rations to permit use of automobiles, were scores of clashes between whites and negroes, flaring throughout the whole city and accompanied by extensive ex-tensive damage to property and looting. loot-ing. Although the army took over operation of the lines upon President Presi-dent Roosevelt's orders to carry workers to their vital jobs, drivers persisted in striking unless the company com-pany discontinued its newly established estab-lished practice of hiring negroes. ROBOTS: Damage Reported Over 4,500 persons killed; 14,000 seriously injured and many more only slightly hurt; 17,000 houses totally to-tally destroyed and 800,000 damaged dam-aged to varying degrees that was the toll taken by the Germans' robot ro-bot bombs during a seven week period, pe-riod, Prime Minister Churchill said. Churchill revealed the extent of the robot damage during a speech in which he declared that the shape of military events throughout the whole perimeter of Hitler's Fortress Europe indicated a possible early victory, with continuing American successes in the Pacific also raising hopes for a shortened war against Japan. Although admitting the severe damage from the robots, Churchill said that the shower of buzz-bombs would not crack British morale, adding: add-ing: "There is no question of diverting divert-ing our strength from the extreme prosecution of the war or allowing this particular infliction to weaken in any way our energetic support of our Allies." France With comrades covering their advance with gunfire, U. S. infantrymen iprint down village street in Normandy to new positions. ANIMAL KINGDOM EUROPE: Drive On Smashing through weak, disorganized disorgan-ized German resistance, U. S. forces bursting out of Normandy plowed into Brittany, with powerful motorized motor-ized columns driving on the big seaport sea-port of Brest and the Nazi submarine sub-marine base of St. Nazaire. While Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley's U. S. forces put the foe to route in the west, British troops smashed forward in the central and eastern sector of the front against stronger German resistance, with the enemy seeking to retard the advance with continual armored counterattacks. With prisoners streaming to the Allied Al-lied rear, the bag was over 100,000 since D-day. Disembarkation point for doughboys dough-boys during World War I and second sec-ond largest port in France, Brest, along with Cherbourg, would give the Allies important terminals for the convenient supply of their armies after repair of the Nazis' extensive ex-tensive demolitions to facilities. The once proud Polish capital of Warsaw became a flaming battleground battle-ground for the second time during the war as Russian forces battered through its eastern environs on the central sector of the eastern front. On the northern end of the front, the Reds strove to seal an estimat- J' V " ed 300,000 German troops cut off in the Baltic states from other Nazi units sorely pressed around East Prussia Prus-sia by Russian forces under command com-mand of 36-year-old Gen. Ivan Chernia-khovsky. Chernia-khovsky. With the Russians PRODUCTION: Boost Needed Because of an upward revision in the requirements of heavy artillery and ammunition, transport equipment, equip-ment, aerial bombs and communications communica-tions equipment, U. S. armament production must be speeded up by 24 per cent by October, Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell of the army service serv-ice forces declared. Revealing that manpower shortages short-ages were the principal deterrents to increased production, General Somervell said that contributing factors fac-tors to the tight situation were absenteeism, ab-senteeism, a search for . peacetime jobs and the unpleasantness and lower low-er pay for work in such critical heavy industries as forgings and castings. As Allied lines lengthened and the pace of battle stepped up requiring longer columns of transport and more and more munitions, the need for trucks, shells, bullets, etc., will continue to rise. General Somervell said, demanding stepped-up output. U.S. BUDGET: Near 100 Billion Figuring on Germany's defeat before be-fore next summer but a longer war against Japan, Budget Director Harold Har-old D. Smith estimated U. S. expenditures expend-itures of 98 billion dollars during the fiscal year ending next June 30. Of the total of 98 H billion dollars, about 89 billion will be for the war. Smith said, with possible increases in the event that the European conflict con-flict is prolonged, requiring a greater great-er output of munitions. With receipts estimated at 45 billion bil-lion dollars, there will be a deficit of over 52 billion, Smith predicted, with the national debt rising to over 250 billion dollars. PACIFIC: Deadly Enemy Pocketed by closing American pincers on all of the South Pacific fronts, Japanese soldiers were desperately des-perately fighting to the last, with U. S. troops literally advancing over their dead bodies. Following the heavy enemy loss on Saipan, no less than 7,893 enemy dead were counted in the fighting on Guam, with Japanese units still resisting, while 5,000 fell on Tinian", with scattered bands directing sniper fire from caves and dugouts. To the south along the northern New Guinea coast where a succession succes-sion of U. S. landings between enemy forces cut them off from one another, fierce Japanese efforts to hack their way out of the steel trap were countered by heavy American resistance. DRAFT: Tighten Inductions Although selective service reaffirmed re-affirmed its present policy of concentrating con-centrating on the induction of men under 26, Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey prodded local boards into calling all men over that age not engaged in an essential occupation. At the same time. Director Hershey Her-shey instructed authorities to clean up the reclassification of all men over 26 in essential industry from 1-A, only leaving non-deferables in that group. Originally, selective service's policy pol-icy of concentrating on induction of men under 26 permitted postponement postpone-ment of the drafting of all men over 26 regardless of the status of their occupation. Tootsie, a six-year-old terrier owned by Rose Smith of Chicago, befriended Petunia, a stray cat, a year ago. So when Petunia was too weak to nurse her kittens after bearing bear-ing them recently, Tootsie nursed them for her, allowing the feline fe-line to share in the feeding when she bore puppies herself. Animal authorities say that it Is unusual for a cat to permit a dog to nurse her kittens while she is around. In Dedham, Mass., a 64-year-old attorney, Woodbury Rand, left $100,-000 $100,-000 for the care of his pet tomcat, Buster, constant companion of the millionaire lawyer during his last illness. Not only did Rand leave $60,-000 $60,-000 to the cat and $40,000 to a housekeeper for its care, but he also provided that his radio, sweaters, blankets, three electric elec-tric fans and favorite chair should be used if they would contribute con-tribute to Buster's comfort. Because of their "contemptuous attitude and cruelty" toward the cat, Rand cancelled $20,000 in bequests to nine cousins. BIG BROTHERS: Business Epic More than 40 years ago, two of the Fisher boys from Norwalk, Ohio, came up to Detroit, Mich., to take a job with the Wilson Body company. Several years later, they started up a business of their own, bringing their four younger brothers in with them as they grew up. Building their business on the belief be-lief that people preferred closed auto bodies, the six Fisher brothers developed de-veloped the famous body company bearing their name, over which General Gen-eral Motors corporation took control con-trol in 1919. Sticking with the company, com-pany, they helped make "Body by Fisher" a byword in the auto trade, until last week when the last four brothers remaining with the firm resigned re-signed from active service. Wealthy in their own right with numerous investments in which a seventh brother is interested, the Fishers may again reenter the manufacturing man-ufacturing field independently, it was rumored. Gen. Chernia- only about 125 miles khovsky from central Germany Ger-many on the southern south-ern end of the front, the Nazis were putting up a stand behind the Vistula Vis-tula river, while Hungarian and Rumanian Ru-manian troops guarded the mountainous moun-tainous gateways to the Balkans. In northern Italy, Allied forces girded for a full scale assault upon the enemy's vaunted "Gothic Line," with their advance on the new fortification forti-fication system hewn in the mountainous moun-tainous terrain slowed by the foe's stubborn stand before the art center of Florence. DIPLOMACY: Swing to Allies With the Allies battering in German Ger-man defenses throughout Europe, neutral Turkey, with one eye closely cocked on the impending peace table, ta-ble, took another step toward the United Nations ranks by breaking off political and economic relations with the Nazis. Meanwhile, little Finland moved to reassert her independence with Marshal Baron von Mannerheim assuming as-suming the presidency from Risto Ryti, who had bound the country to a finish fight against Russia by Germany's Ger-many's side. With the Nazis reported report-ed to be pulling troops out of Finland, Fin-land, there was talk of peace negotiations nego-tiations with Moscow, with the Reds demanding restoration of the 1940 border. With Allied victories in Europe consolidating their position in the Near East, Turkey sought to gain their favor by breaking with Germany, Ger-many, but not before it had obtained ob-tained promises of military assistance assist-ance in the event that the Nazis should attack the country. BABY SERUM A method of immunizing infants against diphtheria and whooping cough by a single injection of serum has been developed by three doctors doc-tors connected with the Evanston, 111., health department. The physicians phys-icians mixed diphtheria toxoid and pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine and injected 649 infants over a five-year five-year period with a high degree of success. Doses were given at three-week three-week intervals and one week intervals. inter-vals. The longer period gave mora satisfactory results. |